New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

Price of Glory. It has been calculated that, from the rupture of peace of Amiens in 1804 to the final abdication of Napoleon in 1815, there were two millions and a half of Frenchmen slaughtered in his wars. This is exclusive of some half a million Poles, Germans, Italians, &c. who fought under his banners. If it be assumed that the nations with whom he was at war, lost man for man, Napoleon's ambition could not have cost our mother Earth less than six millions of her people. Notwithstanding this unheard of butchery and slaughter, the people of Europe enjoy no more freedom, have no more happiness, wealth, influence, skill, knowledge or virtue; and although it is but about fifteen years since the actor went to St. Helena, there cannot be much question that the son of the man, if possessed of one half the qualities he may be supposed to have inherited, may in a few years, shed as much blood to as little purpose.